Publisher's Synopsis
Special Issue: Senses and the City The papers in this special issue of Senses and Society consider, in their respective ways, the role of the senses in forming and shaping experience of the city. They provide a unique range of insights into urban experience, exploring as they do issues of regeneration, decay, temporality and mobility within and through the city. Contents · Editorial: Senses and the City Mags Adams and Simon Guy · Smell and the City: Miasma as a Code of Crisis in Postwar French Cinema Charissa N. Terranova · Gazing at Pudong-"With a Drink in Your Hand": Time Travel, Mediation, and Multisensuous Immersion in the Future City of Shanghai Amanda Lagerkvist · Disturbances in the sensory experience of the city: CCTV and the development of an unreal urban "parallel world" Francisco R. Klauser · Automatic Sensation: Environmental Sensors in the Digital City Jennifer Gabrys · The 24-hour city: residents' sensorial experiences Mags Adams, Gemma Moore, Trevor Cox, Ben Croxford, Mohamed Refaee, Steve Sharples · Sensing the Ruin Tim Edensor · Arrivals and departures in the sensual city - W.G. Sebald's itineraries of the senses in Austerlitz Kimberly Mair · Commentary: Discipline and Disruption: Making Senses of the City Simon Guy · Positive/Negative: Living in Cities Nicole Ferentz Exhibition Reviews · Janet Cardiff Reviewed by Monika Kin Gagnon · Wade 2006 Reviewed by Shannon McMullen and Fabian Winkler
